This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kbuild: do not run depmod for 'make modules_sign' to the 6.5-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kbuild-do-not-run-depmod-for-make-modules_sign.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1d74d20478ab7ade500f572431ac510c8ae90f57 Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 23 20:50:41 2023 +0900 kbuild: do not run depmod for 'make modules_sign' [ Upstream commit 2429742e506a2b5939a62c629c4a46d91df0ada8 ] Commit 961ab4a3cd66 ("kbuild: merge scripts/Makefile.modsign to scripts/Makefile.modinst") started to run depmod at the end of 'make modules_sign'. Move the depmod rule to scripts/Makefile.modinst and run it only when $(modules_sign_only) is empty. Fixes: 961ab4a3cd66 ("kbuild: merge scripts/Makefile.modsign to scripts/Makefile.modinst") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 901cdfa5e7d3b..a5178b9863fb2 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1962,7 +1962,9 @@ quiet_cmd_depmod = DEPMOD $(MODLIB) modules_install: $(Q)$(MAKE) -f $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.modinst +ifndef modules_sign_only $(call cmd,depmod) +endif else # CONFIG_MODULES